On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:21:55PM -0500, fmouse-amanda AT fmp DOT com wrote:
>  
> > BTW there are logfiles being kept, fairly verbose ones at that, 
> > whereever you have it set to in your amanda.conf, or in the default 
> > dir, probably in /var/amanda-dbg or similar.  They will tell you a 
> > lot more precisely what is going on.
> > gentoo.
> > 
> 
> I know about the amanda logfiles, and they're uninformative.  For instance, 
> 
> /var/log/amanda/Fmouse# cat log.20040711.2
> DISK planner vishnu /dev/fasttrak/fmouse_gen
...
> FINISH driver date 20040711 time 30.142
> 
> "all estimate failed", which is where I started with this.
> I'm looking for a reason _why_ "all estimate failed" and this
> doesn't help, nor are there any other logfiles which help.
> 

Do you have the /var/amanda-dbg directory that Gene mentioned
and you overlooked.  In my case it is /tmp/amanda.  In that
directory is where debuging logfiles are placed by amanda.
Gene was not refering to the "logs", but the debug logs.

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